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81metalwork — metalworker, n. /met l werrk /, n. objects made of metal. [1840 50; METAL + WORK] * * * Useful and decorative objects fashioned of various metals. The oldest technique is hammering. After с 2500 BC, casting was also used, molten metal being… …
82pewter — /pyooh teuhr/, n. 1. any of various alloys in which tin is the chief constituent, originally one of tin and lead. 2. a container or utensil made of such an alloy. 3. such utensils collectively: a revival of interest in pewter. 4. Brit. Slang. a.… …
83Spain — /spayn/, n. a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 39,244,195; 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Cap.: Madrid. Spanish, España. * * * Spain Introduction Spain Background: Spain s powerful world empire of the 16th and… …
84typography — /tuy pog reuh fee/, n. 1. the art or process of printing with type. 2. the work of setting and arranging types and of printing from them. 3. the general character or appearance of printed matter. [1635 45; < NL typographia, equiv. to Gk týpo(s)… …
85United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
86Venice — /ven is/, n. 1. Italian, Venezia. a seaport in NE Italy, built on numerous small islands in the Lagoon of Venice. 361,722. 2. Gulf of, the N arm of the Adriatic Sea. 3. a town in SW Florida. 12,153. * * * I Italian Venezia City (pop., 2001 prelim …
87Lamerie, Paul de — born April 9, 1688, s Hertogenbosch, Neth. died Aug. 1, 1751, London, Eng. Dutch born British silversmith. His Huguenot parents had left France in the early 1680s and settled in England by 1691. After an apprenticeship with a London goldsmith, he …
88Sallé, Marie — born 1707 died July 27, 1756, Paris, Fr. French dancer and choreographer. She made her debut at the Paris Opéra in 1721. In London and Paris she performed in a new expressive, dramatic style that later was championed as the ballet d action by… …
89Chinese jade — any of the carved jade objects produced in China from the Neolithic Period (c. 3000–2000 BC) onward. The Chinese have historically regarded carved jade objects as intrinsically valuable, and they metaphorically equated jade with human… …
90Davis, Miles — ▪ American musician Introduction in full Miles Dewey Davis III born May 26, 1926, Alton, Ill., U.S. died Sept. 28, 1991, Santa Monica, Calif. American jazz musician, a great trumpeter who as a bandleader and composer was one of the major… …
